Every lot in an Office Building, Executive Office Park, Shopping Center, General Business, Interchange Services, Recreation Business or Hotel/Motel District occupied by a main building or use shall have a minimum lot width not less than the standard set forth in the following schedule:
Schedule of Minimum Lot Width Requirements
District | Main Building or Use | Lot Width - Minimum (ft.) |
Office Building | Any permitted use | 150 |
Executive Office Park | Any permitted use | 300 |
Shopping Center | Any permitted use | 300 |
Drive-in/drive-thru Restaurant | 250 | |
General Business | Service station | 150(a) |
Automatic car wash | 100 | |
Any other permitted use | 150 | |
New car franchise dealers (conditional use) | 300 | |
Interchange Services | Service station | 200 |
Auto garage | 200 | |
Service station with garage | 250 | |
Hotel or motel (separate) | 200 | |
Hotel or motel (combined with eating, assembly, recreation uses) | 300 | |
Restaurant (separate) | 200 | |
Office building | 200 | |
New car franchise dealers (conditional use) | 300 | |
Drive-in/drive-thru Restaurant | 250 | |
Recreation Business | Any permitted use | 150 |
Hotel/Motel | Hotel or Motel or Extended Stay Hotel Separate | 200 |
Hotel or Motel or Extended Stay Hotel (combined with eating, assembly recreation uses) | 300 | |
(a) In a General Business District, all gasoline stations shall have not less than 150 feet frontage on each of two intersecting streets.
(b) (1) Except for parcels of land consisting of no less than fifteen (15) contiguous acres located in Interchange Services District the main buildings and uses set forth in the schedule of Buildings and Uses, Section 1216.03
, shall be located on such zoning lot having access to and frontage on a dedicated public street. Such public street shall contain utilities required to serve the proposed development or the utilities shall be available to the lot through an established easement. Such access and frontage shall be not less than 100 feet as measured at the public street line unless otherwise approved by the Planning Commission and Council.
(2) In Interchange Services Zoning Districts for parcels of land consisting of no less than fifteen (15) contiguous acres private streets are acceptable in lieu of a right of way dedicated for use by the public, if the applicant agrees that the new lots will be subject to all zoning and development ordinances, standards and regulations and agrees to maintain said private streets. The area of the private street will be deducted from the overall development area in the calculation of any maximum lot coverage, density, or landscaping, but will be included as part of the physical limits of one or multiple lots that make up the subdivision and will include access easements for the City and the public onto the private street to adjacent lots.
(Ord. 2010-76. Passed 9-2-10.)
(c) Access to public streets within 600 feet of freeway ramps and within 400 feet of the following major street intersections shall be controlled in the interest of public safety and reasonable access:
(I-90 & Crocker, I-90 & Columbia, I-90 & Clague, Detroit & Clague, Detroit & Columbia, Detroit & Canterbury, Detroit & Dover, Detroit and Bassett, Detroit & Crocker, Detroit and Bradley, Center Ridge & Bradley, Center Ridge & Dover Center, Center Ridge & Canterbury, Center Ridge & Columbia, Center Ridge & Clague and Crocker Road & Center Ridge Road). Developments within 1,000 feet of the above streets intersections shall be planned so that the first driveway or access street shall be not less than 600 feet from the interchange ramp centerline or 400 feet from the arterial interchange centerlines. Access to parcels within this frontage may be accomplished by marginal service roads, parallel service roads, combined or shared access drives, driveway connections between properties or other approved facilities. The Planning Commission may require driveway connections serving adjacent parcels within 1,000 feet of the above intersection to accomplish these objectives. Whenever is it not feasible to provide such facilities, the Planning Commission may approve temporary access at lesser distances, provided the development and future facilities are planned to meet the objectives of this section. (Ord. 2009-70. Passed 9-3-09.)
(d) A lot or parcel not meeting the minimum lot width in the Office Building, Shopping Center or General Business Districts may be developed if:
(1) It was a lot of record at the effective date of the Zoning Amendment 1987- 221, and
(2) No adjacent land is commonly owned, and
(3) All other standards of this section can be met.
(Ord. 1987-221. Passed 3-17-88; Ord. 1997-246. Passed 2-19-98; Ord. 2018-71. Passed 9-6-18.)